The Russian State Humanitarian University (RGGU) is looking for a researcher who will conduct research on the family of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
As Medusa pointed out, such a vacancy back April 23 in a unified system for holding competitions for positions of scientific personnel. The same information is published on the university’s website (.pdf).
The researcher will have to conduct research on the topic “Collective biography of members of the Putin family in post-reform Russia (1861-1917): the transition from agriculture to urban small entrepreneurship”.
The official salary, as follows from the published materials, will be approximately 82 thousand rubles. No other allowances or benefits are provided.
Applications for this vacancy are being accepted until June 10.
Putin’s ancestors were peasants by social status; Candidate of Historical Sciences Mikhail Gershon said in May that archives usually do not contain information about their way of life. It was recently discovered that the paternal grandfather of Russian President Spiridon Ivanovich was baptized in 1879 in the village of Dudino near Tver.